Samuel Sirvoy Ward, 28, filed a lawsuit Monday against Madison County Sheriff Blake Dorning and a jail physician, arguing that after suffering eight gunshot wounds and being released from Huntsville Hospital to the jail, his requests for medical services were "either ignored or discounted" as frivolous.

Ward was charged with two counts of attempted murder following the shooting incident that occurred on Dec. 12, 2011 near the Butler Terrace public housing complex.

Two officers involved in the incident, who were not named, were later cleared by a police department shooting review panel.

Ward is seeking $3.5 million in his lawsuit, arguing that as an indigent defendant he exhausted his financial resources in seeking appropriate care for his injuries.

Ward was convicted in late November of second-degree assault of a Huntsville Police Department officer.

That incident took place on April 3, 2010, on Arctic Street near the Northwoods public housing complex. Huntsville Police Department officer Kevin Lambert suffered suffered a broken facial bone, a split lip requiring nine stitches and a dislocated shoulder in the encounter before pepper-spraying and arresting Ward.